Technical Features

July 2018

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Figure1: Inductor Self-heating in the core vs the winding

Smart Consideration of Inductor Thermal Performance for DC-DC Converter Performance and Reliability

Len Crane, Director of Technical Marketing

The efficiency and the thermal properties of key components have very real implications for the success of any converter design. Switching FETs and inductors are generally the two most considered choices determining size and performance of any converter. Though made of vastly different materials of course, and with dif

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Date:

02/28/2026

Figure 1: MLV (left) vs. TVS diode (right) temperature derating

Transient Protection Solutions in Automobiles

Ron Demcko, Fellow, AVX Corporation

Thanks to modern technology, passenger vehicles are now safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient than ever. Today’s automobiles utilize incredible amounts of computing power to improve the overall driving experience in several different ways. For example, arrays of sensors and dedicated processing units n

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Date:

07/31/2018

Silicon Carbide Devices for Automotive Power Electronics

Dennis Meyer, Applications Engineer, Microsemi (a Microchip Company) & Jason Chiang, Strategic Marketing Manager, Microsemi (a Microchip Company)

Automotive OEMs and their suppliers have been on the high power, high growth vehicle electrification path for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs)/electric vehicles (EVs) and beyond even to electrification of busses, trucks, trains and more electric aircraft (MEA). With high power demands beyond the efficiency and r

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Date:

07/31/2018

Optimizing Class-D Audio Amplifier Output Filters

Christopher Hare, Technical Marketing Engineer, Coilcraft, Inc.

When audio applications require the highest power efficiency, lowest heat generation, smallest size, and lightest weight, Class-D switched-mode amplifiers surpass the linear class amplifiers. This makes Class-D amplifiers the best choice for extending battery life in DC-powered audio applications, such as

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Date:

07/31/2018